Lately the media has made statements that make people, especially older people, believe that any fire season is extreme and caused by climate change.
It’s BS.
The fire season in Canada this year started with early season fires in Saskatchewan. Fortunately for folks that like to make informed opinions there is a very complete temperature record from the heart of the fire area, Prince Albert.
here’s the raw data for the daily maximum.
And daily minimum.
We can easily calculate the average yearly temperature and 20 year average temperature.
WOW!! There sure is a major climate shift at around 1900. This is the same trend that we highlighted in Part 5. We’re starting to see a pattern here.
Pre 1900 N. America had much colder low temperature, especially during winter.
1900 – 1950 Much warmer temperatures, 5 degrees warmer low temperatures and a more modest increase of 1 degree warmer high temperatures.
1950-1980 A cooling trend of about 1.5 degrees for low temperatures and 0.5-1 degrees for high temperatures.
1980-Present Warming back to about the same level as the 1900-1950 period.
This recurring trend also coincides with the historical trends in forest fire reported by the US Fire Service when comparing area burned by year. The same periods of 1900-1950 saw much larger areas burned than in the 1950-1980 period followed by the current trend of lager burn areas.
But, but, but, they say; “Temperatures are getting hotter and more frequent.”
The graph below shows a histogram of the total number of days with maximum temperatures above 28 degrees C.
Nope, in fact the year 1961 set the record for most days above 28 degrees.
The hottest day was in 1941 and the temperature was truly hot at 39.4 degrees.
Clearly the media are anti-science.